Hi All,
Thanks to many of you, I was able to finally fly my first J seat with pts (EVA). We just came back from our Asia trip a few days ago (booked 2 J seats for EVA using Aeroplan miles due to favorable lap child fees). I started asking questions on FT forum a year ago when I first joined the miles/points hobby! Because of your feedbacks, I was able to fly J instead of Y! There's no going back now (especially on long hauls)!!

Here I am again looking for your feedbacks. We are looking at flying to Japan in J (3 seats this time as our child will be over 2 by then) in March/April/or May 2020 (JFK to Japan) ! Currently we have 1/2 of the required pts for 3 J seats (Amex & SPG pts) and started looking at ANA's website. I hear ANA releases J seats about 355 days in advance, but while searching at their website for April/May of 2019 (testing for awards availbility), I don't see any availbilities for 2 or 3 seats. Anyone knows how good is ANA J availbilities? Any advise on when to start searching/booking? Should we book 2 seats first and remaining one one, two, three, etc. weeks later? What about ANA's refund policy on seats booked with pts (in event we can't booked the 3 seat)? Or any advise we should look at another airline to fly to Japan? Thanks again for your valuable feedbacks!!